Tuesday, 17 March 2009

13th IASI Congress 2009 - Day 2

Josep identified the three high performance centres in Spain and four single sport centres. Josep is based at the Centre d’Alt Rendiment CAR . CAR aims to provide and integrate services to high performance sport. CAR was established in 1987 in time for the Barcelona Olympics. It was established as a public company that used existing facilities. The public nature of the company gave advantages leading into preparations for Barcelona.

Josep noted that the workflow at CAR was focussed on integration. CAR has a 12 million euro budget that is sourced from the Catalan Government, the Spannish governments and income generated by CAR’s own income. There are over 200 staff at CAR. There are 400 athletes and 600 students at CAR. They participate in 26 Olympic and non-Olympic sports. The most recent inclusion has been sport dance.

Work at CAR

CAR is the host of the International Association of High Performance Sports Training Centres (IAHPSTC). Josep outlined the development of forums to share experience. One example has been collaboration with the International Council for Coach Education ICCE.

Josep discussed the new facility being developed at Sant Cugat. He outlined a new technological approach to inform the building process. There is a 36 million euro investment to deliver a facility in 2011. This new facility will be state of the art and built upon principles that include: health and life balance, modularity, integration, non-invasive, instant feedback, control, quality, and ecology. There will be generic technology requirements that include.

Josep indicated that this system will be housed in a unified system with one interface. He demonstrated the concept of the hand held control room for the new facility. The new facility will involve a partnership with CISCO and Dell with a 10 years’ expected life cycle. All this within secure control access.

Josep concluded his presentation with a video animation of the new facility at Sant Cugat.

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